dorothy Posted May 4, 2008 Posted May 4, 2008 Sorry if this has been asked but I have not seen it. We are moving into SOTW4 and I would love to have a "favorites" list with both fiction/non-fiction, biographies, historic novels, and picture books if anyone is willing to share their favorites. I will be teaching a dd11 and dd8. Thanks. Quote
Stacy in NJ Posted May 4, 2008 Posted May 4, 2008 The Activity Guide includes history and lit selections for each chapter. Quote
runningirl71 Posted May 4, 2008 Posted May 4, 2008 Also, if you have TWTM, there is an extensive reading list under literature for 4th graders that coincide with this time period. :) Quote
WABeth Posted May 4, 2008 Posted May 4, 2008 The "History Books" we did together during history time, the "independent readers" I assigned to my dd9 to read, and the "Read Alouds" we have done during our nightly read aloud time. I am sorry that the books are not listed with corresponding SOTW chapters, but they are in order so hopefully you could pretty easily line them up with SOTW. ETA: We also added topics between some SOTW chapters to emphasize some of the fun American history topics, such as Statue of Liberty, automobiles, Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart, etc. so some of the books below don't directly relate to a SOTW chapter. History Books Victoria Queen of England 1837-1901 Florence Nightengale – Zemlicka/ Turner Florence Nightengale: A Phot Illustrated Biography – Davis Travels of Livingston Tree of Life Charles Darwin – on the Trail of Evolution Voyaage of the Beagle Life and Times of Guiseppe Verdi Abraham Lincoln Young Abe Lincoln If you Traveled on the Underground RR Gettysburg Address – McCurdy (Ill.) If you Lived at the Time of the Civil War Ghosts of the Civil War The Drinking Gourd America in the Time of Abraham Lincoln Wagon Wheels Paraquay - Jermyn Elizabeth Blackwell The First Woman Doctor Alexander Graham Bell an Inventive Life Inventor's Times Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Alva Edison Young Inventor Railroad Fever Stories of Young Pioneers Buffalo Bill They're off Dakota Dugout Daily Life in a Covered Wagon Cowboys of the Wild West Going West Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express Westward Ho! If you traveled west in a covered wagon Rachel's Journal Building the Suez Canal Suez Canal - Bodden Feed the Children Countries of the World - Brazil Long Way to a New Land Arriving at Ellis Island Coming to America Story of the Statue of Liberty – Maestro Picnic in October Copper Lady If your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island Streets of Gold Teddy Roosevelt Rough Rider Story of the Sinking of the Battleship Maine Andrew Carnegie: Builder of Libraries We'll Race you Henry Croatia – Hintz Armenia - Hintz Will and Orv Wright Brothers a Flying Start If you Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake Earthquake! 1906 San Francisco Hero Over Here Going to War in WWI Where Poppies Grow Titanic Lost and Found Anastasia's Album Great Migration You Want Women to Vote, Lizze Stanton? Gandhi – Demi Gandhi – Hunter Binya's Blue Umbrella Day of Ahmed's Secret Babe Ruth Saves Baseball Balto Tut's Mummy Roaring 20's China's Long March Ride on the Wind Charles Lindbergh: A Photo Illustrated Biography Children of the Dust Bowl – Stanley Hindenburg – Obrien The Great Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt - Feinberg Armistice 1918 Amelia Earhart, Aviation Pioneer Good Fight Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot World War II Days A Place Where Sunflowers Grow Always Remember Me Lisette's Angel Memorials of Survival So Far From the Sea Little Ships Greatest Skating Race Journey that Saved Curious George Albert Einstein a Life of Genuis Hiroshima - Yep Out of Bounds In a South African City The Fifties - Stacy Lives of Extroardinary Women Destination Moon Footprints on the Moon Race to Space Cold War – Bjornlund John F. Kennedy – Lanley, Schultz, Harper Picture Book of JFK Martin Luther King, Jr. - Adler, Kids Discover If you Lived at the Time of MLK Picture Book of MLK Picture Book of Rosa Parks Linda Brown, You are Not Alone Remember: Journey to School Integration The Wall Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam Story of Watergate - Hurgrove Jimmy Carter: Beyond the Presidency Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union Hamas: Palestinian Terrorists India Under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi Iraq - Hassig Chernobyl - Nardo Fall of the Berlin Wall November 9, 1989 Chinese Cultural Revolution Red Land Yellow River Berlin Wall – Epler Balloon Sailors Persian Gulf War – Gay War Began at Supper No More Strangers Now September 11, 2001 – Cornerstones of Freedom The 2001 World Trade Center Attacks Librarian of Basra Independent Readers Queen Victoria - Landmark At Her Majesty's Request Drummer Boy's Battle Behind Rebel Lines The Boys War COFA: Abraham Lincoln Shades of Gray Maata's Journal The Last Safe House Court of Stone Children Robber and Me Sing Down the Moon Bound for Oregon Terrible Wave Bully for you Teddy Roosevelt Blue Willow Shoes for Everyone Thimble Summer Wright Brothers – Reynolds Flying Aces of WWI Rascal Night Journey Impossible Journey Rose's Journal Rise and Fall of Adolph Hitler Hitler's Daughter Amelia Earhart Snow Treasure The Winged Watchman Combat Nurses of WWII Miracles of Maple Hill In the Year of the Boar COFA: Albert Einstein There Comes a Time Read Alouds Across Five Aprils Lincoln: A Photobiography Little Women Call of the Wild Caddie Woodlawn Great Turkey Walk The Great Wheel Old Yeller If you Lived 100 Years Ago The Good Master The Singing Tree Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt Journey to America Number the Starts Twenty and Ten Little Riders Diary of a Young Girl Hill of Fire Quote
happy2homeschool Posted May 4, 2008 Posted May 4, 2008 Any chance you have a list like that for SOTW 1? :) Quote
WABeth Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 Any chance you have a list like that for SOTW 1?:) Well we are finishing up SOTW 4 now and returning to the ancients next fall. This time I will have a 1st and a 5th grader. I am working on my plan right now and it will include books for each level. The reading list for books we will do along with SOTW during our history time are mostly coming straight out of the AG, so I don't feel comfortable copying my whole list in here because it is basically a copy of the suggested reading in SOTW. Here are the books I plan to have my 5th grader read independently: The Kin - Dickinson Tales of Ancient Egypt Learning Through History – Ancient Egypt Learning Through History – The Ancient Near East Mara, Daughter of the Nile The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt The Cat of Bubastes Hittite Warrior Adara D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths Learning Through History – Ancient Greece Black Ships Before Troy The Wanderings of Odysseus The Children’s Homer The Trojan War Megan in Ancient Greece Theras and His Town In Search of a Homeland Learning Through History – Ancient Rome Augustus Caesar’s World Caesar’s Gallic War Detectives in Togas Mystery of the Roman Ransom Eagle of the Ninth Hostage Lands Song for a Dark Queen Outcast - Sutcliffe The following I will probably read aloud to both, if my oldest hasn't already read it independently: Tales of Ancient Egypt The Golden Goblet Mara, Daughter of the Nile The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths Archimedes and the Door of Science Black Ships Before Troy The Wanderings of Odysseus Megan in Ancient Greece In Search of a Homeland The Bronze Bow Detectives in Togas Mystery of the Roman Ransom Roman Mysteries Eagle of the Ninth Song for a Dark Queen Hope that helps some. Quote
happy2homeschool Posted May 5, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 Thank you! :001_smile: This is a big help for us. My 6th grader will be studying ancients next year and I was looking for a list of books to help me figure out what we should buy. I didn't know if SOTW 1 would help us since it sounded like it was geared for younger grades but maybe I should just buy it for the list of books. Quote
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